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Fifty years later, the historian Cleitarchus expanded and embellished the story.

Centuries later, this version was to be narrated by Diodorus Siculus and all the historians who used Cleitarchus.

According to the sixteenth book of Diodorus ' history, Pausanias had been a lover of Philip, but became jealous when Philip turned his attention to a younger man, also called Pausanias.

His taunting of the new lover caused the youth to throw away his life, which turned his friend Attalus against Pausanias.

Attalus took his revenge by inviting Pausanias to dinner, getting him drunk, then subjecting him to sexual assault.